Talk:Discourse representation theory

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The article's last sentence "DRT is now the main framework used for the formal treatment of natural language in semantics." is not accurate. While it is true that DRT is a framework that is "alive", it is not true that it is the main framework used for the formal treatment of natural language in semantics. Arguably that would be a Montague-style semantics.

Edit: Though Montague-style semantics are still used and are a rather prominent way to capture natural language in a formal way, DRT is the by far more sufficient method. Thinking of the famous donkey-pronouns there is no way we can deal with these cases in a real (hardcore) Montague framework. Nevertheless, this shouldn't result in a ideological debate about whose theory/method/... is the nicest, ...